Category Archives: IT

These posts are not related to photography and have more to do with my day job, how boring…

OSS for your non-profit/civic group/church

By Andrew | Published: December 15, 2009
Image via Wikipedia One of my newer clients came to me with some interesting needs, they are an all-volunteer organization with multiple project-groups and over 300 volunteers. They needed a solution for collaborative project planning (preferably web-based) and volunteer resource management. It turns out that managing people you pay is not that different from managing people [...]
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Pixelpost to WordPress Migration

By Andrew | Published: December 5, 2009
So I made contact on Twitter with @photodreamz who needed to migrate their PixelPost blog to WordPress. The problem is, Pixelpost doesn’t support any type of export interface. This problem was partially solved by Joe Lencioni, over at ShiftingPixel.com and one of his readers, @kristerella of http://kristerella.com. Between the two of them, I believe they [...]
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Zemanta, a gift from the Bloggess

By Andrew | Published: November 30, 2009
Image via CrunchBase I should start by saying this is not in any way endorsed by the twitter user TheBloggess, I simply thought that if bloggers had a deity, it would be a woman. (Just like Christians) If you’ve never heard of Zemanta, don’t feel bad, neither had I until this week. I found this great [...]
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Firefox Extensions, how to make em’ work when they don’t wanna.

By Andrew | Published: November 20, 2009
So if you’re like me, you run the latest version of beta Firefox, stability be damned. The problem is all those nifty extensions you love suddenly stop working with that little “not compatible with this version of Firefox” BS. Here’s the fix: you know those crazy little .xpi files that Mozilla calls their extensions? well [...]
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